Leornardo DaVinci was one of the world's greatest Renaissance Men. In addition to being a consummate artist, cartographer, physiologist and geographer, Leonardo was a neuroscientist before such a field existed. In this book, neuroscientist and surgeon Leonard Shlain looks at the brain of Leonardo through the body of work he managed to produce and comes up with some remarkable insights.

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10 threads from
Leonard Shlain’s …

3. Thread 1:
“The artist is the antenna of the race.”
~ Ezra Pound
(pg. viii)

4. Thread 2:
Every ancient
culture worshipped
goddesses. Then
Judaism, Islam
and Christianity,
founded on a
sacred alphabet
book, denied the
existence of
goddesses.
(pg. xiii)

5. Thread 3:
Neurons that
fire together,
wire together.
Neurons that
fail to link,
fail to sync.
(pg. 10)

6. Thread 4:
Most people
unconsciously know
that the right side of
their face is best to
present to the
outside world.
The left side is
more a reflection
of who they
really are.
(pg. 51)

7. Thread 5:
“As soon as we start putting our thoughts
into words and sentences everything gets
distorted, language is just no damn good.
I use it
because
I have to,
but I don’t
put any
trust
in it.”
(pg. 67)

8. Thread 6:
“Often we have to get away from speech
in order to think clearly.”
(pg. 85)

9. Thread 7:
Think of the right and left hemispheres as
Siamese Twins joined at the corpus callosum.
In the process of generating a major creative
insight, a dis-
connect must
occur between
thetwo halves.
This is called
“hemispheric
bisociation.”
(pg. 92)

10. Thread 8:
One theory: the corpus callosum integrates
information from each hemisphere,
functioning as
a third brain,
producing some-
thing qualitatively
different from
what each side
generates
individually.
(pg. 93)

11. Thread 9:
“In women, the measurements of the
corpus callosum, measured as a whole,
or for specific
measurements
of any seven
subdivisions of
the callosum,
are larger.”
(pg. 1611)

12. Thread 10:
A heightened alertness, a burst of energy,
and an increased clarity of thought are
common
to both
fear and
creativity.
(pg. 97)

13. Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - http://ionamiller.weebly.com/artists-statements.html
Slide 12 - http://andreahannah.com/category/fear-solutions/
Slide 2 - http://http://likesuccess.com/729076
Slide 6 - https://www.pinterest.com/explore/beautiful-people/
Slide 5 - https://www.pinterest.com/explore/brain-cortex/
Slide 11 - http://femininepeace.org/the-colossal-commissure-corpus-callosum
Slide 10 - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/brain-mapping----on-acid
Slide 9 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/36099234491380201/
Slide 8 - http://bit.ly/2kgyNdK
Slide 7 - http://listverse.com/2013/03/26/ten-unusual-etymologies/
Slide 4 - http://rborozan.deviantart.com/art/Medusa-in-Denial-102692686
Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

14. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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